
Long Is the Road(1948)
First Post-War Jewish Film From Europe! Dialogue in English, German, Yiddish and Polish
"Long is the Road" - The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.
Movie: Long Is the Road
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David Jelin
Hanna Jelin
Jakob Jelin
Partisan
Mr. Liebermann
Chodetzki

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"Long is the Road" - The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, and mixing neorealist and expressionist styles, the film follows a Polish Jew and his family from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camps.
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